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2018 Baker Awards
Amy Sherald ’04 (LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting M.F.A.) and Margaret Rorison ’12 (Photographic and Electronic Media M.F.A.) were…
MICA Partners with BMA and For Freedoms to Deliver Civic Engagement Programming
MICA is partnering with the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) and For Freedoms to deliver a robust line-up of civic engagement programming on campus…
Virtuoso Faculty: Mina Cheon
This past September, Korean President Moon Jae-in and the First Lady Kim Jung-sook came to “Eat Choco-Pie Together,” an installation presented…
The Legacy of Chair Emeritus in Art Education Dr. Al Hurwitz ’41 (1920-2012) Is Felt Worldwide
MICA Chair Emeritus in Art Education and alumnus Dr. Al Hurwitz '41, who passed away on Saturday, March 24, 2012 leaves a lasting legacy on the…
Open Works: Tools and Tech for the People
With wood and metal shops, 3-D printing, an electronics lab and textile studios, Open Works is a makerspace where Baltimore City residents can…
North Avenue Knowledge Exchange
Built on the premise that everyone has something to teach and everyone has something to learn, the North Avenue Knowledge Exchange is a community-based…
Hitting Their Marks
Three alumni who are making their mark in the entertainment industry.
Five Must-See Spaces on MICA's Campus
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Brown Atrium
Cohen Plaza
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Five free activities in Baltimore
Discover Masterpieces at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum or the AVAM.
The Baltimore Museum of Art is home to the internationally…
Baltimore's Best Free Outdoor Activities
Whether it’s seeking inspiration at one of our many parks, enjoying a picnic during an outdoor concert, or gazing at the stars on a warm summer…
Get Your Green Quotient -
Visitors new to Baltimore often remark on how green they find the city, and the amount of trees covering our streets is no accident. For years…
MICA Launches New Citywide Initiative to Support Baltimore's Creatives and Entrepreneurs
The Baltimore Creatives Acceleration Network (B/CAN) is a new citywide initiative spearheaded by MICA but operating under its own identity that…
Lishan AZ Named Inaugural Game Designer-in-Residence
This fall, MICA welcomes Lishan AZ as its inaugural Game Designer-in-Residence, a newly launched residency program that invites nationally recognized…
Ada Pinkston & Hoesy Corona: MICA Duo Examines the Past and the Now
Ada Pinkston ’13 (Community Arts M.F.A.) and Hoesy Corona ’09 (Painting B.F.A.) graduated from MICA four years apart. Pinkston focused on community…
MICA Named Top Producer of Fulbright Fellows
Since the inception of the Fulbright Program in 1946, more than 325,000 recent graduates and graduate students from over 155 countries have used…
Dabbling in the Extreme
In 2017, MICA's Jay Gould became the first artist-in-resident to participate in the HEMI/MICA Extreme Arts Program. The program aims to create…
An Entrepreneurial Approach to Educational Innovation
The capacity and willingness to act upon opportunities, to embrace the uncertain, to take a calculated risk, to dream big, to persevere and to…
Toy Design... for Elephants
MICA students students accept challenge to design toy for Asian elephants at the National Zoo.
#MICApreneurship
#MICApreneurship is a hub of creative applied entrepreneurial support, resources and programming specially designed to help MICA students and…
The Value of Artscape
President Samuel Hoi speaks to Baltimore's local NPR station, WYPR about how Artscape is a prime example of the power of the arts bringing people…
Stephen Towns: Patience Paid Off
The most oft-discussed piece in “Ruminations and a Reckoning,” a solo show at the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), is “Birth of a Nation” — a…
MICA Acquires Historic Globe Poster Collection
Globe Poster Printing Corporation, historically one of the nation’s largest showcard printers, has been telling the story of American music and…
Alumna Receives MacArthur “Genius” Grant
Elizabeth Turk ’94 has been called a genius for her ability to make marble look featherweight, but now she has actually earned the title as a…
Fiber Department Shows Smart Textiles Can Change the Fashion Industry
The idea of “smart textiles” is to combine age- old craftsmanship with 21st-century technology. MICA’s Collaborative Smart Textiles Research…
Creative Entrepreneurs Are Changing Baltimore, the World
These MICA students and alumni have an internal drive to do big things and a deep passion for helping others.
MICA Honors Members of the Legacy Society and Mount Royal Society
MICA recognized a group of philanthropists who have had a significant impact on the College at a May 17 event hosted by President Samuel Hoi…
DeRay Mckesson, Joyce J. Scott ’70, Carrie Mae Weems Among Honorees at MICA’s 169th Commencement
College will also award MICA trustee Alice Falvey Greif with honorary degree at undergraduate ceremony; author, editor and designer Victor Margolin…
MICA Community Helps Illuminate Baltimore During Light City 2018
Light City, America’s first large-scale light festival, is where Baltimore brings artists from around the world together for a celebration of…
Fairman Studios, LLC — Winner $30K in 2018 UP/Start Competition
Jennifer ‘Jeni’ Fairman ’17 (Business of Art & Design M.P.S.) never thought she would be a business owner. After receiving her first Masters…
Rising Action Studio — Winner $10k in 2018 UP/Start Competition
Rising Action Studio, which helps change makers and nonprofits tell imaginative, inspiring and ethical stories about social impact movements…
MICA Welcomes Sheri Parks as Vice President of Strategic Initiatives
MICA is pleased to announce the appointment of Sheri Parks as the College's next Vice President of Strategic Initiatives.
Beginning on June…
Social Butterfly — 2018 UP/Start People’s Choice Award Winner with 5k in Funding
With balloons stating “You actually showed up, so have fun,” and paper cups encouraging others to “Ask me what I like about the party,” the party…
Boba Studios — Winner of $20k in 2018 UP/Start Competition
Video games often fall into one of two categories: AAA, an informal classification for games produced by a major industry publisher, or independent/indie…
Chameleon Gallery — Winner of $15k in 2018 UP/Start Competition
As artists, Yi-An P‘an ’18 (LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting M.F.A.) and Haoran Chang ’18 (Mount Royal School of Art M.F.A.) say they are…
The Longform — Winner of $25k in 2018 UP/Start Competition
Browse the racks at any major book store and you’ll find specialty publications dedicated to everything from music and fashion to food, art and…
2018 Steinmetz Residency Awarded to Design Technologist Zachary Lieberman
Zachary Lieberman, New York-based artist, design technologist and educator dedicated to exploring new modes of expression and play, has been…
Boss Lady
MICA Alumna, Ramsey Naito ’92, up for Academy Award for the animated movie The Boss Baby
Strength in Numbers
Two years after the launch of the M.F.A. in Filmmaking, students in the program are reaping the benefits of unique partnerships with Johns Hopkins…
In Real Time
For me, music has always been a path for survival, in the strictest terms. Inspired by the music of Nirvana and the underground music scenes…
Fashion Forward
If the fashion industry were ranked alongside individual countries’ gross domestic product, the global fashion industry would represent the…
Knowledge and Community
At MICA, the library is one of the most interdisciplinary spaces on campus. It’s a space where faculty, staff and students intersect. A space…
Cut/Fold/Make (Unravel the Code)
Project from MICA's Unravel the Code course
On Public Display
Performance Art as Protest & Protest as Performance Art
The Upstarts
MICA Art and Design Entrepreneurs Compete For $100,000 in Venture Funding Through Up/Start Initiative
MICA Named Top Producing Institution for 2017-2018 Fulbright U.S. Student Program
MICA was included on the list of U.S. colleges and universities that produced the most 2017-2018 Fulbright U.S. Students, among special-focus…
Shenzhen Poster Exhibition Brings International Designers to MICA
Coinciding with the Lunar New Year celebration on Friday, Feb. 16, 2018 MICA transformed the Brown Center atrium into an exhibition of poster…
MICA Awards Over $100K to Creative Entrepreneurs at UP/Start Finale
Seed funding awarded to 6 MICA student and alumni teams for their creative innovative businesses.